Bio: Rachel MacCleery is Vice President for Infrastructure at the Urban Land Institute. She is responsible for guiding the organization’s approach to national and global transportation, water, and energy policy issues. At ULI, Rachel directs the production of an annual state-of-infrastructure report, manages a program to examine federal transportation policy and make recommendations for reform, and engages with ULI’s local chapters in efforts to better link transportation and land use at the regional level. Rachel has extensive international experience, having consulted on infrastructure and planning projects in China when she was working for global infrastructure provider AECOM from 2004 to 2008. Rachel began her career as a transportation planner for the city of Washington, D.C., where she worked from 2001 to 2004. Rachel speaks Mandarin Chinese.
Education: MPA-URP, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 2001; BA (summa cum laude), International Studies, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1996
Key Publications: Co-author, Shifting Suburbs: Reinventing Infrastructure for Compact Development, Urban Land Institute, December, 2012, www.uli.org/shiftingsuburbs; Co-author, special section exploring ballot measures and leadership for infrastructure, Infrastructure 2012: Spotlight on Leadership, Urban Land Institute, May 2012, www.uli.org/infrastructurereport; Author and co-author, numerous articles in Urban Land magazine, http://urbanland.uli.org/Meet-the-Authors/Rachel-MacCleery; Author, numerous blog posts on the ULI Infrastructure blog, www.uli.org/infrastructureblog
Bio: Lewis Milford is President and founder of Clean Energy Group and the Clean Energy States Alliance, two nonprofit organizations that work with state, federal and international organizations to promote clean energy technologies. He is also a non-resident Senior Fellow with the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program. For the last twenty years, he has worked on many policy and finance related matters involving creation of clean energy and energy efficiency public funds, created networks of state officials working on renewable portfolio laws, written and advised on public policy to promote technology innovation, advised on new ways to leverage public funds through private financing options and has created national partnerships to use public bonds to address the question of how to scale clean energy finance. Prior to founding CEG in 1998, Mr. Milford was Vice President of the Conservation Law Foundation, where he conducted litigation and advocated on a variety of energy and environmental issues throughout New England. Previously, Mr. Milford was a New York Assistant Attorney General representing the State of New York in the Love Canal hazardous waste case. He was also a law professor and director of the Public Interest Law Clinic at American University in Washington, D.C., where he taught and represented Vietnam War veterans harmed by Agent Orange in federal court and before Congress.
Education: Mr. Milford has a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.
Key Publications: CEG and CDFA. "CE+BFI State Clean Energy Finance Initiative Proposal." February 6, 2013. Available at: http://www.cleanegroup.org/publications/resource/ce-bfi-state-clean-energy-finance-initiative-proposal Rittner, Toby and Lewis Milford. "CDFA & CEG's New Clean Energy + Bond Finance Initiative." November 14, 2012. Avaialable at: http://www.cleanegroup.org/publications/resource/cdfa-and-ceg-s-new-clean-energy-bond-finance-initiative Milford, Lewis, Robert Sanders and Toby Rittner. "Clean Energy and Bond Finance Initiative: An Action Plan to Access Capital Markets." August 1, 2012. Available at: http://www.cleanegroup.org/publications/resource/clean-energy-and-bond-finance-initiative-an-action-plan-to-access-capital-markets Milford, Lewis, Mark Muro, Jessica Morey, Devashree Saha, and Mark Sinclair. "Leveraging State Clean Energy Funds for Economic Development." January 12, 2012. Available at: http://www.cleanegroup.org/publications/resource/leveraging-state-clean-energy-funds-for-economic-development Milford, Lewis, Ross Tyler, and Jessica Morey. "Strategies to Finance Large-scale Deployment of Renewable Energy Projects: An Economic Development and Infrastructure Approach." December 5, 2011. Available at: http://www.cleanegroup.org/publications/resource/strategies-to-finance-large-scale-deployment-of-renewable-energy-projects-an-economic-development-and-infrastructure-approach Milford, Lewis, Jessica Morey, Lindsay Madeira and Valerie Stori. “Moving Climate Innovation into the 21st Centruy: Emerging Lessons from other Sectors and Options for a New Climate Innovation Initiative.” Clean Energy Group. May 11, 2011. Available at: http://www.cleanegroup.org/assets/Uploads/2011-Files/Reports/CEG-DFID-Moving-Climate-Innovation-Report-May-2011-final.pdf. Milford, Lewis, Jessica Morey. “Innovation to Infrastructure: Clean Energy without Cap and Trade.” Clean Energy Group. November 15, 2010. Available at: http://www.cleanegroup.org/assets/Uploads/InnovationtoInfrastructureCEGPaper11.10.10final.pdf. Milford, Lewis, Jessica Morey and Lindsay Madeira. “Accelerating Climate Technologies: Innovative Market Strategies to Overcome Barriers to Scale-Up.” Clean Energy Group. July 30, 2010. Available at: http://www.cleanegroup.org/assets/Uploads/2011-Files/Reports/CEGAcceleratingClimateTechnologies10.pdf. Milford, Lewis, Mark Sinclair, Ken Locklin and Charles Kubert. “Federal Climate and Energy Legislation and the States: Legislative Principles and recommendations for a New Clean Energy Federalism.” Clean Energy Group. April 30, 2010. Available at: http://www.cleanegroup.org/assets/Uploads/2011-Files/Reports/CEGCleanEnergyFederalismv3April2010.pdf. Milford, Lewis, Jessica Morey. “Climate Crash Course for Copenhagen: The Six Simple Reasons Why We Need Global Technology Collaboration.” Clean Energy Group. December 21, 2009. Available at: http://www.cleanegroup.org/assets/Uploads/2011-Files/Reports/CEGClimateCourseCopenhagenDec2009.pdf.
Other Publications: Mr. Milford is the co-author of Wages of War, a social history of American war veterans, published by Simon and Schuster in 1989.
Past Assignments: Clean and Green Energy Forum, "Sustainable Investing" Panel GREEN Working Group Convening, "State Infrastructure Financing Entities and the Clean Energy and Bond Finance Initiative." CDFA Intro to Energy Finance Course, "Understanding Energy Development – Market Perspective." CEC IEPR Lead Commissioner Workshop: Transition to a Clean Economy. "Renewable Technologies on the Horizon." Energy Investment Forum (Austin, TX). "Energy Infrastructure." 2012 IDA Section Conference: Basics of Renewable Energy Finance. "Understanding Energy Development."
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